MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAMILY JOURNAL. 
a contest like the present, he had, therefore, 
every advantage over his fellow athletce. 
The arena allotted for this hymenial con¬ 
test, was a level space in front of the vil¬ 
lage inn, and near the centre of a grass 
plat, reserved in the midst of the village, 
denominated ‘the green.’ The verdure was 
quite worn off at this place by previous ex¬ 
ercises of a similar kind, and a hard surface 
of sand, more befittingly for the purpose to 
which it was to be used, supplied its place. 
The father of the lovely, blushing, and 
withal happy prize, (for,she well knew who 
would w r in,) with three other patriarchal 
villagers, were the judges appointed-to de-.- 
cide upon the claims of tire several com-, 
petitors. The last time Carroll tried his" 
skill in this' exercise, he ‘.'cleared,’ to use 
the leaper’s phraseology, ’ twenty-one feet 
and one inch.* * •. . • 
The signal was given,, andjr by dot the' 
young men stepp"ed'into'the arena. 
“Edward Grayson’ seventeen feet,”, cried 
one of the judges. The youth had done 
his utmost. He was a pale intellectual stu¬ 
dent. But what had intellect to do in such 
an arena ? Without a look at the maiden 
he left the ground. 
“ Dick Boulden, nineteen feet.” Dick with 
a laugh turned away, and replaced his coat. 
“ Harry Preston, nineteen feet and three 
inches.” “ Well done, Harry Preston,” 
shouted the spectators, “you have tried hard 
for the acres and homestead.” 
Harry also laughed, and said he only 
‘jumped for the fun of the thing.’ Ilarrj’ 
was a rattle-brained fellow, but never 
thought of matrimony. He loved to walk 
and talk, and romp with Annette, but sober 
marriage never came into his head. He 
only ‘jumped for the fun of the thing.’ 
“ Charley Simms, fifteen feet and a half.” 
“Hurrah for Charley! Charley’ll win!” 
cried the crowd good-humoredly. Charley 
Simms was the cleverest fellow in the world. 
His mother had advised him to stay at 
home, and told him if he. ever won a wife, 
she would fall in love with his good temper, 
rather than his legs. Charley however 
made the trial of the latter’s capabilities 
and lost Many refused to enter the lists 
altogether Others made the trial, and only 
one had as yet cleared twenty feet. 
“Now,” cried the villagers, “Let’s see 
Henry Carroll. He ought to beat this,” 
and every one appeared, as they called to 
effort, the bound that was to decide the 
happiness or misery of Plenry and Annette. 
“ Twenty-two feet and one inch!” shout¬ 
ed the judge. The announcement was re¬ 
peated with surprise by the spectators, who 
crowded around the victor, filling the air 
with congratulations, not unmingled, how¬ 
ever, with loud murmurs from those who 
were more nearly interested in the happi¬ 
ness of the lovers. 
The old man approached, and grasping 
his hand exultingly, called him his son, arid 
said he felt prouder of him than if he were 
a prince. Physical activity and strength 
were the. old leaper’s true patents of nobility. 
■ 'Resuming his coat, the victor sought 
with his-eye the fair prize he had, although 
nameless-.and unknown, so fairly won. She 
leaned.on lier father, pale and distressed. 
. H6r lover stood aloof, gloomy and mortifi¬ 
ed, admiring the superiority of the stranger 
in an exercise in which he prided himself as 
unrivalled, while he*hated him for his success. 
“ Annette, my pretty prize,” said the vic¬ 
tor, taking her passive hand—“ I have won 
you fairly.” Annette’s cheek became paler, 
than marble; she trembled like an aspen leaf, 
clung closer to her father, while the drooping j 
eye sought the form of her lover. His brow 
grew dark at the stranger’s language. 
“ I have won you, my pretty flower, t8 
make you a bride!—tremble not so violent¬ 
ly—I mean not for myself, however proud 
I might be,” he added with gallantry, “ to 
THE SIDE WALKS. 
“Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt: 
Nothing’s so hard, but search will lind it out." 
BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 
Why don’t the people ash the walks ? 
I think it is a pity 
That folks should be so ’tarnal slack 
In this our famous city ! 
For if to court the zephyrs cool, 
You venture out at even, 
Your head will court the icy walks, 
Your heels, the stars in heaven ! 
‘ Why don’t the people ash their walks V 
» Cries out one, as he launches, 
And sliding oft' a yard or two, 
Comes down upon his haunches ! 
Its worse than walking in the mud ! 
Makes men appear quite balky— 
And the ladies shuffle it along 
As if they danced the polka ! 
Then let each one, where’er lie dwells, 
With liberal hand spread ashes ! 
So that we all may safely walk, 
Nor stand in fear of smashes. 
But if you don’t regard this hint, 
Both married men and single, 
I’ll scold so hard next time 1 write, 
That all your ears will tingle ! 
[New Haven Register. 
The day is done, and the darkness 
Falls from the wings of night, 
As a feather is wafted downward, 
From an Eagle in his flight. 
I see the lights of the village 
Gleam through the rain and the mist, 
And a feeling of sadness comes o’er me, 
That my soul ’cannot resist; 
A feeling of sadness and longing. 
That is not akin to pain, 
And resembles sorrow only 
As the mist resembles rain. 
Come read to me some poem, 
Some simple and heartfelt lay. 
That shall soothe this restless feeling, 
And banish the thought of day. 
Not from the grand old masters, 
Not from the bards sublime, 
Whose distant footsteps echo, 
Through the corridors of time. 
For, like strains of martial music, 
Their mighty thoughts suggest 
Life’s endless toil and endeavor ; 
And to-night I long for rest. 
Read from some humbler poet 
Whose songs gush from his heart, 
As showers from the clouds of summer, 
Or tears from the eyelids start. 
Who, through long days of labor, 
And nights devoid of ease, 
Still heard in his soul the music 
Of wonderful melodies. 
Such songs have power to quiet 
The Testless pulse of care, 
And comes like the benediction 
That follows after prayer. 
Then read from the treasured volume 
The poem of thy choice, 
And lend to the rhyme of the poet 
The beauty of thy voice. 
And the night shall be filled with music, 
And the cares that infest the day 
Shall fold up their tents like the Arabs, 
And as silently steal away. 
[For the Rural New-Yorker.] 
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA—ACROSTICAL. 
I am composed of 17 letters. 
My 1, C, 3, 11, 14, 16 isa county in Georgia, 
My 2, 8, 14, 16 is a river in Germany. 
My 3, 14, 17 is a river in Ireland. 
My 4, 6,13, 15, 3, 7, 10 is a town in Cfhnli. ’ 
My 5,16, 2, 8, 9 is a sea in Europe. 
My 6, 8, 9, 17 is a county in North Carolina. 
My <, lo, 16, 12, 9, 6, 4, 3, 8 is a cluster of Islands 
in the Pacific Ocean. 
My S, 6, 4, 17, 7 is a town in Massachusetts. 
My 9, 6,7,13, 8, 9, 2, 16, 14 is a county in Massa¬ 
chusetts, 
My 10, 2, 16 is a river in England. 
My II, 5, 3, 4, 15, 4, 6 is a town in Ireland, 
My 12,13, 16, 17, 14 is a river in Prussia. 
My 13, 5, 11, 12 is a comity in Ohio. 
My 14, 16, 2,17 is a lake in North America. 
My 15, 16, 10, 3 is a lake in Asia. 
My 16, 9,14, 5, 7,12 isa town in France. 
My 17,16, 2, 14 is a county in New York. 
My whole is a distinguishcdPoet of a formerAge. 
a. a. 
O’ Answer next week. 
For the Rural New-Yorker. 
ACRO STICAL 
Fine Fellows. —The man who adver¬ 
tises in our paper; the man who never re¬ 
fuses to lend you money, and the fellow 
who is courting your sister. 
Genteel People. —The young lady who 
lets her mother do the ironing, for fear of 
spreading her hands. The miss who wears 
thin shoes on a rainy day, and the young 
gentleman who is ashamed to»be seen walk¬ 
ing with his father. 
Industrious People. —The young lady 
who reads romances in bed. The friend 
who is always engaged when you call, and 
the correspondent who cannot find time to 
answer your letters. 
Unpopular Personaoes. —A fat man 
ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 16 letters. 
My 1, 8, 3, 6 is an emblem of innocence. 
My 2, 4, 13, 9 is used by rope makers. 
My 3, 12, 5, 14, 15 is a term of time. 
My 4, 9, 14 is an insect. 
My 5, 12, 8, 15 is a celebrated mechanic. 
My 12, 8, 5, 10, 12 is a kingdom in Africa. 
My 3, 13, 3, 16 is essential to a country in time of 
war. 
My 9, 12 is one half my 5, 12, 8,15. 
My 10, 13,12, 10 is a beverage. 
My 11,4, 13 is one of the greatest calamities that 
ever befel a nation. 
My 12, 8, 14 is a kind of grain. 
My 13, 4, 3 is a quadruped. 
My 14, 13, 12, 2isa city in the State of New York. 
My 15, 18, 14 is an article of wearing apparel. 
My 16, 4, 11, 1 is a kind of boat used by sailors. 
My whole is one of the Supervisors of the county 
of Monroe. ' 
[O’ Answer next week. 
In one of the loveliest villages of old 
Virginia, there lived, in the year 175-, an 
odd old man, whose daughter was declared, 
by universal consent, to be the loveliest 
maiden in all the country round. The vet¬ 
eran, in his youth, had been athletic and 
muscular above all his fellows ; and his 
breast, where he always wore them, could 
show the adornment of three medals, re¬ 
ceived for his victories in gymnastic feats 
when a young man. His daughter was 
now eighteen, and had been sought in mar¬ 
riage by many suitors. One brought wealth 
—another, a fine person—another, industry 
—another, military talents — another this, 
and another that But they were all re¬ 
fused by the old man, who became, at last, 
a bye-word for his obstinacy among the 
young men of the village and neij 
Timid People.—A lover about to pop 
the question, a man who does not like to be 
shot at, and a steamboat company with a 
cholera case on board. 
Dignified Men. —A cit in a country 
tpwn, a midshipman on quarter deck, and 
a school committee on examination day. 
Persecuted People.— Woman by that 
tyrant man, boys by their parents and teach¬ 
ers, and all poor people by society at large. 
Unhappy People.— All old bachelors, 
old maids, and married people. 
Ambitious Chaps. —The writer who pays 
the Magazines for inserting liis communica¬ 
tions. The politician who quits his party 
because he cannot get an office. The boy 
who expects to be President. 
Humble Persons.— The husband who 
does his wife’s churning, the wife who blacks 
her husband’s boots, and the man who says 
that he thinks you do him too much honor. 
Mean People.— The man who kicks 
people when they are down. The subscri¬ 
ber who neglects to pay for his paper, and 
daddy when he refuses to let you have 
money. 
Sensible People.—You and I. 
Sub L I Me ! 
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A Ndn LLT hela die ss Ay: 
‘ ‘ Dolo OK a thim,t he Dea Roldman 
G rows Yd U Nge Rev E R Y Day:” 
An Dvvhe nea Chfr I end A sks; ‘ ‘A tyo raw Ge 
Ho wea Me y ouf Reef rom IiLS?” 
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ILF Answer next week. 
inat night Henry and Annette were mar¬ 
ried, and the health of the mysterious and 
noble hearted stranger, was drank in over¬ 
flowing bumpers of rustic beverage. 
In process of time, there were born unto 
the married pair, sons and daughters, and 
Harry Carroll had become Colonel Henry 
ighborhood. 
At length the nineteenth birth-day of the 
fair Annette, his charming daughter, who 
was as amiable and modest as she was 
beautiful, arrived. The morning of that 
day, her father invited all the youth of the 
country to a hay-making frolic. Seventeen 
handsome and industrious young men as¬ 
sembled. They came not only to make 
My first assuages the appetite of a horse, and ag¬ 
onizes the foot of a man; my second, if made of 
brick, is good; when of stone, better; and, as tlie 
seaman would say, when wooden, is best of all: 
my whole is famous for its—(but hold ! we must 
make a charade upon a charade here)—take the 
principal produce of China, a part of the body that 
is often black, and as frequently gray or blue, and 
a useful domestic bird,—or, rather, the three letters 
which, in pronunciation, resemble these things,— 
and they will show for what my whole is famous. 
DjP Answer next week. 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &C., Df NO, (52. 
Facetious. —A short time after the ar¬ 
rival of the ship Mary Anne into one of 
the Liverpool docks, one of the officials 
connected with it sent 
Ans. to Enigma.— Sartain’s Magazine 
Ans. to puzzle. —Ben-jam-in. 
over a messenger to 
the Custom House, with the astounding in¬ 
formation that the landing waiter had omit¬ 
ted examining the trunk of one of the pas¬ 
sengers. A landing surveyor was immedi¬ 
ately sent over to the dock to discharge the 
necessary duty, who, on arriving at his des¬ 
tination, asked to see the passenger’s trunk, 
upon which he was gravely referred to the 
“ elephant” which the vessel had brought 
over for the Regent’s Park Zoological So¬ 
ciety. The surveyor good-humoredly laugh¬ 
ed at the joke, and, acknowledged him¬ 
self fairly “sold.” 
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straight-limbed young stranger. “ She is the 
bride of him who out-leaps Henry Carroll. 
If you will try you are free to do so. But 
let me tell you, Harry Carroll lias no rival 
in Virginia, Here is my daughter, sir, look 
at her and make your trial.” 
The young officer glanced upon the trem¬ 
bling maiden about to be offered on the al¬ 
tar of her father’s unconquerable monoma¬ 
nia, with an admiring eye. The poor girl 
looked at Harry, who stood near with a 
troubled brow and angry eye, and then cast 
upon the new competitor an imploring look. 
Placing his coat in the hands of one of 
the judges, he drew a sash he wore beneath 
it tighter around his waist, and taking the 
appointed stand, made, apparently without 
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witness and triumph in the success of'the 
victor. All prophesied and many wished 
that it would be young Carroll. He was 
the handsomest and best humored youth in 
the county, and all knew that a strong and 
mutual attachment existed between him 
and the fair Annette. Carroll had won the 
reputation of being the ‘ best leaper,’ and 
in a country where such athletic achieve¬ 
ments were the sine qua non of a man’s 
cleverness, this was no ordinary honor. In 
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